Students petition to have gay teacher rehired at Catholic high school in Columbus.

Her lesbian relationship appeared in a public way--the newspaper.   I'm sure the school authorities knew, and there was a tacit agreement about her not announcing her relationship which she apparently did in her mother's obituary by announcing her partner as a survivor. There are thousands and thousands of Protestant churches that have no over site except the local congregation, no magisterium and no pope (except the one in the mirror). Where 2 or 3 are gathered, they create a new church to fit their private interpretation of scripture. 

If all those students signed the petition, then their parents have wasted a lot of money on private school tuition, or the school has done some very poor religious instruction. Remove the nature of the firing and replace it with something else the church teaches, such as denying the sacraments,  or the real presence in the Eucharist, or teaching birth control methods in health class. Would she be on staff?

This happened with the ELCA.  Lesbians were ordained as pastors decades ago with the agreement they would remain celibate.  They changed their minds and ripped the church apart for 2 decades, ending in a split and the formation of a new synod. Essentially, they said scripture and church rules didn’t matter, only their private interpretation. Over the years, each proposal and compromise failed, until finally, a few years ago, the gay lobby won and the synod split.  http://www.nbc4i.com/story/22006466/bishop-watterson-pe-teacher-talks-to-nbc4-after-dismissal

Chocolate Lasagna—looks criminally delicious

INGREDIENTS
1 package regular Oreo cookies (Not Double Stuff) – about 36 cookies
6 Tablespoon butter, melted
1- 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
... 1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 Tablespoons cold milk
1- 12 ounce tub Cool Whip, divided
2 – 3.9 ounce packages Chocolate Instant Pudding.
3 1/4 cups cold milk
1 and 1/2 cups mini chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
1. Begin by crushing 36 Oreo cookies. I used my food processor for this, but you could also place them in a large zip lock bag and crush them with a rolling pin. When the Oreos have turned into fine crumbs, you are done.
2. Transfer the Oreo crumbs to a large bowl. Stir in 6 tablespoons melted butter and use a fork to incorporate the butter into the cookie crumbs. When the butter is distributed, transfer the mixture to a 9 x 13 inch baking dish. Press the crumbs into the bottom of the pan. Place the pan in the refrigerator while you work on the additional layers.
3. Mix the cream cheese with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add in 2 Tablespoons of milk, and sugar, and mix well. Stir in 1 and 1/4 cups Cool Whip. Spread this mixture over the crust.
4. In a bowl, combine chocolate instant pudding with 3 and 1/4 cups cold milk. Whisk for several minutes until the pudding starts to thicken. Use a spatula to spread the mixture over the previous cream cheese layer. Allow the dessert to rest for about 5 minutes so that the pudding can firm up further.
5. Spread the remaining Cool Whip over the top. Sprinkle mini chocolate chips evenly over the top. Place in the freezer for 1 hour, or the refrigerator for 4 hours before serving.

Self-hatred among liberals

David J. Sirota is a male, white American liberal, a political commentator and radio host based in Denver who writes for Slate.  Apparently he said something so stupid, it is hard to believe.  He said or tweeted or wrote that he hoped the bomber looks just like him (that's a paraphrase). Can you imagine a Mexican American or an African American or an Iranian American saying that?  What self hate and guilt consumes these white liberals. Maybe they really do know what their toxic politics are doing to babies and minorities? 

Based on the fact that most violent crimes are committed by males, and that whites are the majority in the country, their ancestors having come here from Europe to escape centuries of oppression, Marxism and dictatorships, that wouldn't be a bad guess.  However, few men know how to use pressure cookers. (Unless they can tomatoes.)  Really, you men should be embarrassed to claim him.

 The link

Axelrod and Frank, doing what the left does best—blame first, investigate late

Regardless of who the terrorist is found to be in the Boston bombing, whether he be singleton or a groupie enamored of a philosophy that doesn't like American freedoms and symbols, our left leaning media and politicians seem bent on finding blame not among their own policies of down playing the seriousness of international terrorism, but on the right. After all, even the word had been struck from the official vocabulary, but there it was-- the deed. 

Has the Tea Party caused mob disruptions like the Occupiers the media excused for every indecency and burned building?

Have abortion protestors caused the mayhem, disease and death perpetrated by abortionist Dr. Gosnell? 

Who has been in the streets marching against taxes on April 15?  I haven’t heard of a single story. Stories of Obama’s 18% tax rate, yes, I did hear that.

Were the first responders not quick enough that we should think higher taxes would have prevented this? 

Barney Frank, political hack,  and political strategist David Axelrod seem to be really messed up. They admitted they knew nothing, but shifted blame anyway.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/16/axelrod_on_boston_bombings_im_sure_what_was_going_through_the_presidents_mind_is_it_was_tax_day.html

Humor in headlines: Family held captive. . .

There’s a story in the Washington Post about a “Loudoun family held captive in home-invasion robbery.”  A reader suggests a better story line and says he’s unemployed and looking for a job—and could do a better job.  Personally, I always thought “home-invasion” was over kill for break-in.  And why are we left to speculate about the weapon?   “. . . used a weapon to hold the family against their will, authorities said.”  Was it a gun?  A pressure cooker?  A box cutter?

Obama and the polls

President Obama bases his gun control efforts on poll results that claim we the people want more restrictions on access to guns (he doesn't like the Constitution, especially those pesky amendments).

"The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown, I think, is unimaginable." NBC Today show

When has he ever listened to what we the people want about lower taxes, fewer regulations killing the economy, his take over of the health care industry, his drones killing innocent civilians, his reluctance for a thorough Benghazi investigation, or even something as simple as sending a high ranking official to Margaret Thatcher's funeral? He manipulates the wording of the gun polls to suit his campaign to win back the House for Democrats

President Obama claims that polls show the overwhelming majority of Americans want to make it tougher for criminals and the mentally ill to own guns. Then he proposes legislation that will restrict only non-criminals and non-mentally ill.  At least, my definition of a criminal is someone who doesn’t obey the laws.

An insult to our ally, Great Britain

When John Atta Mills, the President of Ghana, died last year, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally led the delegation to his funeral. But everyone knows Ghana is more important to our history and alliances than Great Britain. Obama can't pull anyone away from this gun control efforts, so everyone is too busy to honor Margaret Thatcher. Of course, that's bogus. He believes the free market and capitalism isn't important, and that is what she represents, so he won't honor her.

Bombs bump bugs

Democrats will probably be happy this story of bugging will be bumped by the bombing tragedy in Boston. Democrats bugging Republican Mitch McConnell office. Where are the Watergate investigators when you need them? Well, they were Democrats.

 http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/11/project-kentucky-has-close-ties-to-democratic-party/

Your privacy if you try to complete a survey

Just for "fun" I decided to read through the privacy rights I was giving away in order to complete a store survey (in order to enter a sweepstakes). I had to click through a number of hot links to even get to this level. Reminds me very much of HIPAA, which by the time you read through all the ways your privacy is protected, everyone except possibly the janitorial service has access to your medical records.

"Legal Requirements and Protection of Our Company and Others

We may disclose your information in other special circumstances. These include situations when the sharing is necessary to protect the safety, property, or other rights of BIG RETAILER, our customers, our associates, or any other person, or where otherwise required by law. Examples include protecting the health or safety of customers, or addressing crimes committed on BIG RETAILER property. Data from in-store security cameras may also be provided to law enforcement upon written request. BIG RETAILER may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or as otherwise required by applicable law."

I think the Boston Bombers will be caught.

Pouty peace prize Prez

Update from START on Global Terrorism

“START’s Global Terrorism Database (GTD) records 16 terrorist attacks that have occurred in Boston since 1970, but only three since 1990. The most recent recorded terrorist attack occurred in November 1995 when an explosion occurred at the Boston-based headquarters of the Christian Science community. This 1995 bombing caused no fatalities.

According to the GTD, Boston has been the 14^th most frequently targeted U.S. city by terrorists in the past 40+ years. Houston, Texas, has similarly experienced 16 attacks during this period. New York (430 attacks) is by far the most frequently targeted U.S. city, with Los Angeles (103 attacks) the second most common target.

The majority of Boston’s terrorist activity occurred in the 1970s, with Black nationalists responsible for five of the 12 attacks during that decade. Violent White supremacists and violent far-leftists were also active in Boston during this time.

There have been two fatal terrorist attacks in Boston since 1970, both classified as assassinations: In 1992, Iwao Matsuda—the president of a Japanese university—was assassinated in his hotel during a visit to Boston; in 1995, Paul McLaughlin—a prosecutor specializing in gang-related cases—was shot in his car in a parking lot in the city. “

http://www.start.umd.edu/start/announcements/announcement.asp?id=514

From bomber to Professor at the University of Illinois

Bill Ayers got his start doing what yesterday's bomber did. And today, he's a retired faculty member of the University of Illinois, a good friend of our President who helped him get elected, and speaks at workshops for educators of your children. It's not surprising that the president has a problem with the T-word.  Ayers is also a  visiting scholar at Minnesota State University.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/21/bill-ayers-to-keynote-national-teacher-conference-in-february/

http://nation.foxnews.com/bill-ayers/2013/03/24/minnesota-university-selects-terrorist-bill-ayers-visiting-scholar

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html?pagewanted=all 

''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.

I wonder what the parents of the 8 year old boy killed yesterday think of Ayers idea of social justice? Or Krystle Campbell’s parents?

“Hordon HEALTH lost a member of its extended family yesterday at the Boston Marathon. Her name was Krystle Campbell, and she died instantly yesterday at the bombings. Krystle could easily have been described as the salt of the earth, but her complexity demands more… “

A President, a Prime Minister and a Pope changed the world

Outrageous. Obama is sending no one to Thatcher's funeral, so Boehner will. Any doubt about this president now?   The White House is too busy flogging the gun control issue and dancing on the graves of dead children so it can get back the House.

Boehner: “Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest champions freedom has ever known, and her funeral gives Americans and friends around the world an opportunity to pay final respects,” Boehner said. “I’m pleased that Congressman Blackburn will lead a House delegation to Baroness Thatcher’s funeral to communicate our prayers and condolences to her family and the British people.”

Bachmann and Holding will also attend from the House.

 http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/16/no-white-house-envoy-to-thatcher-funeral/

Mastermind of 1993 bombing is on social media

The Kitchen Cabinet reports,  "The blind sheik, convicted of orchestrating the deadly World Trade Center bombing 20 years ago, has benefited from a sophisticated social media messaging machine despite serving life in prison in a solitary confinement cell in North Carolina.

And federal authorities can’t do anything to stop Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman because his family is running the show on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and a website hosted in the United States - and there's nothing illegal in the content of the sites' messages. The various social media channels are keeping his devoted followers connected to his Islamist teachings and calls from extremists to have him released from prison.
Abdel-Rahman’s sons, along with other devoted followers, run the operations from Egypt, and his official website, Sheikh-omar.com, is hosted by a server company operating in Chicago, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute. MEMRI is a respected nonprofit, nonpartisan website that covers the Middle East and terrorism issues and hosts the archives of the late congressman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., one of the country's premier experts on foreign policy.

The report, written by Steven Stalinsk, details all the blind sheik’s multimedia pages available to the public on the Internet. Abdel-Rahman’s official website has nearly 8,000 people who have signed a petition seeking his release and was created June 24, 2010. It includes updates on the blind sheik, as well as his group Gama’at al-Islamia, the report says."

There's more:  http://www.washingtonguardian.com/terror-tweets

I’m not so sure there’s nothing that can be done.  Facebook bumps people all the time for far less serious reasons.

Age of consent is 16 in Connecticut

But apparently it’s never consensual if it’s a teacher and student.  She certainly sounds like she was consenting.

Farmington police said the allegations date back to 2010 and involve a now-former student who said that Rajkumar started groping her when she was 15 and that they had sex after she turned 17. The girl told police that she and Rajkumar had sex several times during some weeks, and that they had sex in a closet in his classroom.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ex-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-at-miss-porters-elite-all-girls-boarding-school-in-conn/2013/04/10/a19ea9c6-a1e2-11e2-bd52-614156372695_singlePage.html?tid=obnetwork

The Gosnell trial about which the left knew nothing

The jury in the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell was told this morning that the embattled abortion practitioner kept at least 47 babies in odd places at his clinic such as cat food jars and other containers.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/15/jury-told-gosnell-kept-47-aborted-babies-in-cat-food-containers/

Gosnell’s wife whom he married in 1990 helped with the business.  I wonder what happened to his first wife, if there was one.

It’s not an urban legend

Snopes.com has had to publish an item about Gosnell snipping the spinal cords of born alive infants and that no, this isn't an urban legend. That's what happens when the media fail to report, and word starts getting out. People wonder how this could be if they didn't know about his trial. Now the media are saying, yes, but he's the exception. How do we know that? We know skulls are routinely crushed in the birth canal; what's a few inches in the life of a child? People who knew him for years thought everything about him was professional and caring. http://www.allaboutlifechallenges.org/late-term-abortion.htm

For April 15, tax day

So you are pro-choice

and you voted for Obama and you are loyal to the Democratic party to the death.  You didn’t vote for this, did you?

“One woman…was left lying in place for hours after Gosnell tore her cervix and colon while trying, unsuccessfully, to extract the fetus. Relatives who came to pick her up were refused entry into the building; they had to threaten to call the police. They eventually found her inside, bleeding and incoherent, and transported her to the hospital, where doctors had to remove almost half a foot of her intestines.”

Grand Jury investigation of Kermit Gosnell, Philadelphia abortionist making $15,000 a day from aborting minority babies.

http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/pdfs/grandjurywomensmedical.pdf

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54458

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gosnell-scandal_716203.html

Philadelphia Department of Health complicit in Gosnell killings

It's great that we're passing the news along about Kermit Gosnell [which the media have ignored], killer of women and babies in Philadelphia. But now the focus needs to shift to the health department which turned a blind eye for over a decade, while this man made millions. Hospitals reported the damaged women that were coming to them. Injured patients reported Gosnell. Their reports went nowhere. One of the health department officials was a doctor who when in private practice had been referring teens to Gosnell. The women and babies were primarily poor and minority. I doubt that this collapse of public health is limited to Pennsylvania. Our local agencies are afraid to do anything about abortion clinics. Helping the poor is often just a platform for building a power base.

When a mentally ill man kills his mother and shoots up a school it is news 24/7 for weeks and the President takes the dead with him on a campaign tour to regain the House. When Gosnell kills far more for decades, making himself a millionaire, it is ignored by the media and the White House.

http://nation.foxnews.com/dr-gosnell-trial/2013/04/13/testimony-dept-health-ignored-gosnell-abortion-clinic-horror-stories

http://www.cpforlife.org/complicity.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/why-dr-kermit-gosnells-trial-should-be-a-front-page-story/274944/